Nothing to get your blood pumping like an engaging conversation about content management, right? In all seriousness, there are some excellent points that are being brought up within this article. A bit wordy, but a great read none the less. Check out the rest below…

A friend and I are looking at a bunch of different content management systems for a church Web site. We’ve been discussing the merits of the various approaches, and looking at some open source offerings like Mambo, Typo3, and eZ publish.

During this, I’ve struck upon a concept that I always knew in the back of my head, but never really articulated —

I don’t like content management systems getting too cozy with the content they manage. In fact, I don’t even like the system to know what content it’s managing, just so long and it knows it’s managing content of some kind. [Read the rest]